There were Squam ships near him; he was sure they had satisfaction in perceiving his difficult descent.

She forced herself to rest, to drain off the poisons of fatigue caused by her difficult descent.

He has the most difficult 18 descents to his credit.

After a difficult descent, which involved passage down through a freezing waterfall, they at last reached safety.

With the sun still two hours high they arrived at the edge of the brake, with a steep and difficult descent below.

The flight tape recorder nicely engineered the difficult descent through the outer layer of air.

They moved over the crest and started the difficult descent to the valley.

The road along the river had led them down a pair of very difficult descents that promised to be even more difficult climbs.

They'd made good time since their scrambling, difficult descent into this valley below the high ridge.

"It does not seem too difficult a descent," I said.